Hopefully a little more of a brief note for once, but back in Short Reports 8 I announced a paper uploaded to Academia.edu, A Forest of Stars, wherein I attempt to ask some challenging questions about the state of affairs with Mesoamerican archaeology and the possibility that our current rather incomplete understanding of things hasn’tContinue reading “Ancient Astronomical Symbolism: Movies Versus Snapshots”
Tag Archives: Mayan Astronomy
Mayan Telescopes?
In my recent attempt at a paper posted to academia.edu, I audaciously suggest that ancient Americans were aware of Saturn’s rings and capitalized on this knowledge in making symbolic representations of what the stars, planets, moon and sun were up to at a given point in time. I deliberately tried to avoid getting into theContinue reading “Mayan Telescopes?”
Star Wars, Nothing But Star Wars…
I should figure that more weird Star Wars irony might come along. It was bad enough to have one “Luke Piwalker” fixated on Tikal after Tikal having made cameo appearances in Star Wars films, but my latest round of inquiry into ancient calendars actually brings us to the term “Star Wars” as used by MayanContinue reading “Star Wars, Nothing But Star Wars…”
The Palace of the Vertical Grooves, Tikal: Foreword
The Palace of the Vertical Grooves, Tikal Encouraged by what I believe may be major successes in the interpretation and understanding of the Bat Palace at Tikal, I decided to take another look at “The Palace With the Vertical Grooves” at Tikal, also known as the “Palace of the Facades With Vertical Grooves” and StructureContinue reading “The Palace of the Vertical Grooves, Tikal: Foreword”
More Mercury and a Little Mars
Since I am attempting to give new consideration to the still unsolved problem of ideal approximation of Mercury’s Orbital and Synodic Periods, perhaps it’s timely to also want to give new consideration to the still uncertain cycles of Mars as well. The majority of mathematical probes seem to want to give a primary value ofContinue reading “More Mercury and a Little Mars”
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